Ganza, also known as Ganzo or Koma, is an Omotic language spoken in the Al Kurumik District of the Blue Nile (state) in Sudan and in the western Benishangul-Gumuz region of Ethiopia, specifically in the village districts of Penishuba and Yabeldigis.
Ganza | |
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غانزا | |
Native to | Sudan, Ethiopia |
Region | Asosa Zone of Benishangul-Gumuz Region |
Native speakers | 3,000 (2007)[1] |
Language family | Afro-Asiatic
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | gza |
Glottolog | ganz1246 |
ELP | Ganza |
It also goes by the names Ganzo, Gwami, Koma, and Koma-Ganza.[2]
Bilabial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
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Nasal | m | n | ŋ | ʔ̃ | ||
Plosive | voiceless | p | t | k | ʔ | |
ejective | pʼ | tʼ | kʼ | |||
voiced | b | d | ɡ | |||
Fricative | voiceless | s | ʃ | h | ||
ejective | sʼ | |||||
voiced | z | |||||
Approximant | l | j | w | |||
Trill | r |
Ganza does not utilize consonant length phonemically.[3]: 106
Front | Back | |
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Close | i | u |
Mid | e | o |
Open | a |
Although vowel length is typically contrastive in Omotic languages, Ganza does not have a clear contrast between long and short vowel phonemes. Instead, Ganza has predictable utterance-final vowel lengthening and a set of monosyllabic words with double vowels.[3]: 109
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